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package com.google.common.io;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A callback to be used with the streaming {@code readLines} methods.
 * 
 * <p>
 * {@link #processLine} will be called for each line that is read, and should
 * return {@code false} when you want to stop processing.
 * 
 * @author Miles Barr
 * @since 2009.09.15 <b>tentative</b>
 */
public interface LineProcessor<T> {

    /**
     * This method will be called once for each line.
     * 
     * @param line
     *            the line read from the input, without delimiter
     * @return true to continue processing, false to stop
     */
    boolean processLine(String line) throws IOException;

    /** Return the result of processing all the lines. */
    T getResult();
}
